Thursday, July 14, 2016

Salt Lake City, UT -- Attorney Margaret Dore, president of Choice is an Illusion, which has fought assisted suicide legalization efforts in many states, and now Utah, made the following statement in connection with a bill pending before the Utah Legislature. (HB 264).

"The bill has an application process to obtain the lethal dose," said Dore. "The process includes a written lethal dose request form with two required witnesses. One of the witnesses is allowed to be the patient's heir who will financially benefit from the patient's death."

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Testimony of Kenneth Stevens MD Opposing Assisted Suicide

1. I strongly urge you to Vote No on HB 264, which seeks to legalize physician assisted suicide in Utah

Photo of me and my patient Jeanette Hall, 15 years after
I talked her out of assisted suicide in Oregon

I am a cancer doctor in Oregon, where physician-assisted suicide is legal. I was also raised in Logan, graduated from USU, and received my MD from the University of Utah Medical School 50 years ago. I am Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Oregon Health and Science University. I regularly visit Utah. I continue to practice in my cancer medical specialty.

Welcome!

H.B. 264, which seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, is pending in the Utah legislature.

The bill is titled the "End of Life Options Act," but patients are not required to be at the end of life. They may have years, even decades, to live. The Act is, regardless, stacked against the patient and a recipe for elder abuse, especially in the inheritance setting.